Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/P024807/1

Title:

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Hub Extension (H2FC SUPERGEN)

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Dodds, Professor PE	Mays, Professor T	Shah, Professor N
Book, Professor D	Steinberger-Wilckens, Professor R	Kucernak, Professor A
Irvine, Professor J	Metcalfe, Professor IS	Molkov, Professor V

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

Arcola Energy	Cenex	Ceres Power Ltd
E4Tech Ltd	Intelligent Energy Ltd	Johnson Matthey

Department:

Earth Science and Engineering

Organisation:

Imperial College London

Scheme:

Standard Research - NR1

Starts:

01 May 2017

Ends:

31 December 2022

Value (£):

3,173,251

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Fuel Cell Technologies

Sustainable Energy Vectors

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Energy

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Panel Date	Panel Name	Outcome
25 Oct 2016	Supergen Extension 2016	Announced

Summary on Grant Application Form

The H2FC sector is developing at a rapid pace around the world. In USA, Germany, S.Korea, and Japan, where the government has provided incentives or entered public-private partnerships, the uptake of FC technologies has been far greater than in the UK and is expected to grow, generating billions of dollars every year. In Asia, manufacturers will produce around 3,000 fuel cell cars in 2016 and around 50,000 fuel cell combined heat and power devices. Toyota alone expects to build 30,000 FC cars in 2020. Some hydrogen buses in London's fleet have operated for nearly 20,000 hours since 2011 and the city of Aberdeen runs Europe's largest hydrogen bus fleet, while individual stationary fuel cells have generated power for over 80,000 operating hours. The recently issued H2FC UK roadmap has identified key opportunities for the UK and areas in which H2FC technologies can have benefits.

The H2FC SUPERGEN Hub seeks to address a number of key issues facing the hydrogen and fuel cells sector, specifically: (i) to evaluate and demonstrate the role of hydrogen and fuel cell research in the UK energy landscape, and to link this to the wider landscape internationally, (ii) to identify, study and exploit the impact of hydrogen and fuel cells in low carbon energy systems, and (iii) to create a cohort of academics and industrialists who are appraised of each other's work and can confidently network together to solve research problems which are beyond their individual competencies. Such systems will include the use of H2FC technologies to manage intermittency with increased penetration of renewables, supporting the development of secure and affordable energy supplies for the future. Both low carbon transport (cars, buses, boats/ferries) and low carbon heating/power systems employing hydrogen and/or fuel cells have the potential to be important technologies in our future energy system, benefiting from their intrinsic high efficiency and their ability to use a wide range of low to zero carbon fuel stocks.

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